Why do you suppose it's Cars Land and not Radiator Springs County

Are we trying to be Disneyesque to draw from the the "Lands" labels of the DLR main attraction sections, or are we just being most obvious with an association with the film title rather than the real "Land" area itself?

Help me out here.

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Re: Why do you suppose it's Cars Land and not Radiator Springs County

Originally Posted by Sorcerer's Apprentice

Are we trying to be Disneyesque to draw from the the "Lands" labels of the DLR main attraction sections, or are we just being most obvious with an association with the film title rather than the real "Land" area itself?

It's all about the franchise title tie-in. Carsland got its green light and big budget for two reasons: the billion-dollar sales of Cars toys, and the fact that the demographic buying them is boys -- a demographic that Disney has been chasing for decades (and which they'd failed to grab, until Cars mechandise became a megahit).

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Re: Why do you suppose it's Cars Land and not Radiator Springs County

Originally Posted by Mr Wiggins

It's all about the franchise title tie-in. Carsland got its green light and big budget for two reasons: the billion-dollar sales of Cars toys, and the fact that the demographic buying them is boys -- a demographic that Disney has been chasing for decades (and which they'd failed to grab, until Cars mechandise became a megahit).

And we are back to the old question "Is Cars Land sustainable in the long run?". Since Cars and especially Cars 2 are a couple of the weaker Pixar releases the answer is "Not likely". Homage to the internal combustion engine doesn't seem to be a very safe strategic direction. But in the short term - Ka-Ching$$$$$

Re: Why do you suppose it's Cars Land and not Radiator Springs County

Originally Posted by DisneylandTraveler

And we are back to the old question "Is Cars Land sustainable in the long run?". Since Cars and especially Cars 2 are a couple of the weaker Pixar releases the answer is "Not likely". Homage to the internal combustion engine doesn't seem to be a very safe strategic direction. But in the short term - Ka-Ching$$$$$

Have to disagree. The money my husband and I have dumped into Cars stuff... the continued love for it... the now nostalgic affection my older one has for what he has now outgrown to play with actively....

... rivals only the complete mania both boys went through with their Thomas the Tank Engine phases of their earlier years....

Some characters and themes stick with you your whole life. Tinkerbell did with me. I still buy and wear all her stuff at Disneyland. A mouse lasted this long. Why not a car?

Re: Why do you suppose it's Cars Land and not Radiator Springs County

personally i think it has to do with the lack of brandability that most of DCA's lands share. Thus the rename of Hollywood Pictures Blacklot. Renaming it Hollywoodland isn't because it's name association, or the demographic of younger boys. The only real success of land names in DCA is Paradise Pier. We'll see how well it does, but i would have like to have seen a more original name, like route 66 or Radiator Springs.

Re: Why do you suppose it's Cars Land and not Radiator Springs County

Some characters and themes stick with you your whole life. Tinkerbell did with me. I still buy and wear all her stuff at Disneyland. A mouse lasted this long. Why not a car?

I just struggle with that. Wall-E can survive the long term because he had a heart bigger than any human and it was just a great, great movie. Cars? Just not sure though I am willing to admit I could be wrong here. It could be a personal bias because of my incredible disappointment with the Cars 2 effort.

Re: Why do you suppose it's Cars Land and not Radiator Springs County

Re: Why do you suppose it's Cars Land and not Radiator Springs County

Originally Posted by DisneylandTraveler

And we are back to the old question "Is Cars Land sustainable in the long run?". Since Cars and especially Cars 2 are a couple of the weaker Pixar releases the answer is "Not likely". Homage to the internal combustion engine doesn't seem to be a very safe strategic direction. But in the short term - Ka-Ching$$$$$

Thankfully car culture is already a fitting theme for DCA so when and if franchise exhaustion sets in, "Cars™ Land" can become "Cars Land" overnight. It's not like any of the attractions force you to have pre existing knowledge of the franchise (unlike the criticisms thrown at TLM). It's just Cars with faces! Nobody in my family has seen Cars and I dislike the films but they, like myself, were blown away when they saw recent pictures of the land. Brand recognition is a plus but clearly not a prerequisite

It`s easy to see a future where Cars™ fades away and Cars Land continues to thrive.

Re: Why do you suppose it's Cars Land and not Radiator Springs County

Re: Why do you suppose it's Cars Land and not Radiator Springs County

Originally Posted by Kritter

The town is Radiator Springs and Carburetor County

What's a "carburetor"? Even a real NASCAR Sprint Cup race car doesn't use a carburetor anymore. Like passenger cars, they are now fuel injected. Cars Land will probably date itself into obsolescence at some point.

Re: Why do you suppose it's Cars Land and not Radiator Springs County

The land isn't just the town of Radiator Springs...it's Radiator Springs, Cadillac Range, Ornament Valley, and Stanley's Oasis.

And as Kritter noted, Radiator Springs is in Carburetor County.

Another reason might be that Carsland is just two easy syllables. The the first describes a familiar moving thing central to California culture for the last 100 years, even if Route 66 is mostly outside of California. The second syllable has a connection to other DisneyLAND areas.

Radiator Springs has five syllables, the first four of which are an automotive part that most guests aren't very familiar with, and the last syllable (Springs) is not particularly descriptive of this new area.

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Re: Why do you suppose it's Cars Land and not Radiator Springs County

I think the went with CL because, like others have said, the land doesn't just have radiator springs in it. Plus the name allows room for non Cars based expansion. I like it. I think there would be just as many complaints if it was RS like the name being too limiting and Cadillac range not fitting.

In the quest for quality, I have no problem with the characters footing the bill.